Category: Making

How does one improve their imagination once they become a logical, sensible, rational adult?

In a world awash with illustration and art theory, is there a better way to judge whether a drawing is any good?

There may be no other tool so well-suited to exploration and erasure than a pencil.

Is it possible to find pleasure in habit? To turn ‘chores’ into something more enjoyable?

Are unbroken writing streaks really that good for me? What if I broke the cardinal rule – write every week – to do something different?

When the goalposts for what success looks like keep moving (either of my own doing or of the culture’s), then what’s succesful anymore?

What should painters paint? What should illustrators illustrate?

When you work in books, people assume you’re a book person. But, what happens when that’s not true? What if, for you, it was cinema?

We think that we need to have an idea in order to get started but, perhaps, it’s the opposite way around?

Do ideas come to us through divine inspiration? Or do we just need to pick up a pencil or pen and begin so that we find an idea?